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Blue, I haven't tried it but
I think most flash web based apps work with iSight. Right click on the flash screen and select "Settings" and click "allow" for access to camera and microphone then click on the camera and mic icon to select the proper input devices for the app.
Prudent planning?
Sorry to inform you that you're not in a position to plan for Apple. You either buy or sell the stock and that's as much planning as you can do. Anything else is just gumflap. As far as I am concerned, until I see something concrete from MS, I'm not going to lose any sleep over what they may or may not do.
Also you're talking as if the market is stagnant. I don't know how much growth there is left but if MS end up with 30% of the market by say 2009 do you think you can roughly calculate the number of iPods Apple will be selling by then? Lets make it easier. Will Apple be selling more or less than what they are selling now? If you can't answer that then it goes to proof that your market share numbers are pure crap.
You asked me a question? Now what was that?
Yes I certainly have missed the boat.
I missed the 7pt rally that took AAPL from 53.50 to 61.50 because I had no position in AAPL. When you talk about people "blinded", aren't you just as blinded by MS might? You know throwing numbers like 10, 20 and 30% out like that is pure crap when you don't even know what product and services they are about to offer.
roni, I suppose we're missing each other's points.
My point here is that we shouldn't worry simply because MS is coming. We need to find out how many men, guns and horses they're bringing first and that's when we should decide whether to worry or not.
coreguy, I think that's the right attitude.
Lango, So you're quivering too?
Maybe you also need to be worry of what Sony, Dell, Creative, Real, etc might do to erode Apple's share of the market. Of course, they are no MS but together they might take another big chunk of the market.
So I suppose we need to reprice Apple now because we have something to worry about. So now that you have some concrete numbers like 10,20 and 30% you can easily calculate a new price range for AAPL based on the financial impact of MS potenital impact. No? Oh yeah, I suppose it is right to do so before we even know what they have and when they'll have it. Or maybe we should just sit here and worry.
You didn't think Apple was dum enough to think that they'd have the market all to themselves unchallenged, did you? So now they know MS is coming what do you think they should do? Sit there and worry? Send out spies to find out wtf is going on? Blindly throw features at the iPod hoping to scare away MS? or simply do the best they can with what they have as they have always done? I'm not worried because I know they will do the latter.
Apple is not sitting around doing nothing you know?
Bootz, and there is a monster in your closet.
What do you have to quiver in your bootz about? I would worry if everybody start thinking like you. MS just lift their hands and everyone duck for cover Apple is the 500lb gorilla in the ring not MS. As long as Apple has all their cylinders running, there is nothing to worry. You know what Steve Jobs is probably saying now? "What took them so long?"
roni, until we know what they have up their sleeve,
we're worrying over nothing. Seriously, there is nothing to take seriously at the moment.
roni, look at it this way. The chances of MSFT dethroning Apple in the iPod arena is equal to the chances of Apple dethroning MSFT in the OS arena plus MSFT is totally uncreative and many have tried and failed miserably.
It sounds like they're still in product development stage.
IOW, vaporware.
Blue, you're 3 quarters behind. What am I supposed to tell your fans?
The reason is simple.
No ITMS to hold the people to the player.
Blue, you thinking of updating your iPod chart anytime soon?
tomm,
That was no MW but did you see Jobs' back up? The slightly bald guy sitting in the front at the beginning wearing black turtleneck.
Jim, it's good that you don't have to go to iRaq.
FUD factory hard at work. So what's new?
These guys in Hong Kong has only been hit with the iPod.
They haven't yet experienced the real iPod phenom and that is iPod/iTMS. To them the advantage of an iPod is "white ear bud coolness" and slowly fading ease of use. Little wonder the other players are catching on there. Where are those Asian iTMS btw?
Why sell a PC for $199 when you can sell it at $599?
Simply put: You can't beat them, join them.
People can buy PVR these days
that'll pause, rewind and record live TV that are so easy to use. Additionally, the VCR has been around long enough that most will know how to program. I don't see the need for Apple to make the mac mini a DVR and jepordize their relationship with the networks and developing a real video download strategy.
Sorry it's not an Apple.
It's more fun b*tching about Apple stuff so we can sound much smarter than we really are.
dholt99:
I don't know what this guy was trying to report. First of all, he's comparing a core solo version on an old non-universal app. What they should be testing is Doom 3 which has a universal binary update. Second, I don't know if it's a typo or what but where did he find 1080i HD movie trailers. The only ones I can find are 1080p.
What's so curious?
It meant to be played on an iPod.
Jim, I had a IIsi too upgraded from a LC.
At the time my dream machine was the IIci. Couldn't afford it so I settled for the IIsi.
The good old days.
Jim, things are so different now.
GPUs are practically their own computer with their own OS. Programs and OSs are actually written around GPU engines to make them run faster. A lot of OSX eye candy are off loaded to the GPU so as to free up the CPU.
Jim, I have a CRT Sony TV that I still watch daily.
It is 23 years old. It's got this futuristic stand and step on power, volume and channel buttons. In my house I've got four HD sets and two regular set. Of them all, we watch the 23 year old CRT most because it sits in the kitchen where we always hang out. The other sets other than those in the bed rooms are rarely on. My point here is that CRT can last a looong time. LCD, OTOH, I'm not so sure because they've been on the market only so long. I know as a fact that the LED bulbs on LCD will burn out over time but most system's bulb are replacable. Maybe by the time they burn out LCD set will be so inexpensive that replacing the bulb will not be worthwhile. In any case I'm unable to answer your question.
Another factor that affect the life of your TV is usage. I think my sets will last for many years simply because I rarely watch them.
Now as for TV's with integrated computers inside. I don't really think there is a market for it. Beside the fact I mentioned regarding lifespan, there is the issue of the TV market itself. Most homes will have on average 2 or 3 TVs and they are replaced only when they break and as you have mentioned, they last a long time. TV is therefore a replacement market like automobile but with a much longer replacement cycle. Now if Apple were to just sell a box to go along side these TVs, there is great market potential because the TVs are already in people's homes. OTOH, if Apple were to sell integrated sets, those units will be in competition with numerous TV vendors and existing sets in the homes. It's really not something Apple will want to get into.
Regarding your question on the money Apple saved by utilising shared RAM. I really don't know but there must be some kind of savings otherwise why bother. Another reason for doing this is to differentiate between high end and low end models. What difference will there be between the mac mini which sells for $799 and a Mac Book Pro with pretty much the same processor that goes for $1999. I really don't think Intel bullied Apple into using their shared memory chipset. Its a business decision to dumb down the low end products.
dilleet: I don't know if you're catching your own drift.
Open your mac up and look at even the simpliest 64MB graphics card. These things are practically a computer in itself but dedicated in doing one task and that is to draw what's on your screen. Calling them just vram is an insult. Intel solution is but a low end, cheap and just good enough one I wouldn't go as far as saying "improved performance". What do you mean by Intel not giving them a choice? You don't see an intel GPU solution on the iMacs nor Mac Books.
Dilleet: GPU stands for Graphics Processing Unit.
VRAM is only part of it. The Intel solution off loads the graphics processing to the CPU. It will obviously be inferior to a system with its own hardware GPU but hopefully it is well compensated by the faster CPU. The jury is still out on that one.
What's he thinking?
DVI to video adapter? I can't imagine the quality of a mini on a regular TV. Clearly, Apple is not thinking about this crowd for obvious reasons and this guy is plain silly to even suggest it. Anyone with a TV that has no digital inputs should not even think of putting a PC near it.
Jim, the problem with an integrated design.
is that a TV is good for +10 years and a PC < 5 years. I think keeping them separate is the proper way to go. I like the way they have the mac mini but don't really like the way they shrimp the GPU.
I never mentioned HD but it can handle 480p with no problems. 720p, forget about it and that's on my G4 mac mini.
Bootz: yes all macs have these crappy speakers built in.
I think it's a matter of competing concepts.
Right now Apple has the biggest online content store on the planet. Why is it wrong to leverage on that? TIVO has been on the scene as far back as when there were no iPods. If it was such a great concept, why hasn't it taken the world by storm as the iPod/ITMS has?
Bottom line:
It's not a geek's living room PC. It's a consumer's living room PC. Computing made easy. That's what Apple is all about. You want to noodle with the nitty gritty, you buy a PC.
iTunes video distribution will be Apple's next salvo that will propel their living room strategy to the next level. This PVR stuff will only work against it.
The Newton reborn. eom
Oseola: I dunno
my dual G5 with a 128MB GPU could barely keep up playing 1080p content. You think an iPod can decode 480p?
Oseola: Reality check.
HD on a 3.5" screen is overkill. No?
OT: Sorry folks, pelting wasn't the right word.
I have a feeling someone needs to call the iHub police and maybe an ambulance.
Where's the java counter?
OT: Hmmm? Somehow I get the nagging feeling
that we're going to get a pelting of personal attack accusations.